Auction #74

The collection-study of Large Hermes head forgeries, on 36 pages, divided by type or forgers: 1a. Crude Early Lithographic Forgery (14 stamps & 7 sheetlets), 1b. Early Lithographic Forgery (83 stamps, 3 strips and 7 blocks or sheetlets), 2. The Alisaffi Forgeries (98 stamps, 6 pairs, 6 blocks of four), 3. Forgeries by Fournier of Geneva (34 stamps), 4. Forgeries by Oneglia of Torino (27 stamps), 5. Forgeries by Imperato of Genova of 30λ & 60λ (17 stamps, 5 pairs, 1 strip of three, 12 blocks of four, 1 block of six, 2 blocks of nine, 1 block of 15), 6. Some other dangerous forgeries (25 stamps), 7. The Sperati forgery of the 1λ Paris print (2 stamps and 2 die proofs), 8, Die Proof forgeries (5 engraved sheetlets), 9. Various (1 Die Proof sheetlet, 3 Plate proof forgeries, 1 20λ black, 10 look-alikes, 17 poor quality forgeries, 11 really awful forgeries, 8 stamps to simulate different issues, 1 genuine block of four with forged postmark), Extremely interesting collection, very hard to find (Bill Ure's collection)